4:20 PM,
May 2, 2013

Colin Ford, left, and Jason Bateman are in the best of three stories in 'Disconnect.'

Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett

This is the promise of the digital age, is it not? Whether it's social media, e-mail, chat rooms, whatever, someone is always just a click away. In "Disconnect," Henry Alex Rubin's film, this is not a good thing. It is, in fact, a really bad thing, dangerous, maybe even fatal.

It's a good film, unquestionably well-meaning, but in that regard it feels a little dated already, the Big Bad Internet swooping in and stealing what's left of our lives. It's not that anything that happens in the movie is beyond possibility. It's just that, taken together, it adds up to a bleak picture of ...